Repository: University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections

Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010

Physical location: Vault

Language of Material: Collection materials in English

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The album contains a group of 44 early (mostly) color photographs and 1 color postcard. Many of the photographs are of a
group of unidentified [Western, possibly British] visitors to Japan, ca. 1900 -1910. The color photographs may be examples
of the Lumière Autochrome process first patented in 1903.

Some of the color photographs appear to be hand-tinted. Scenes include a black and white photo of a large two stack coal
burning steam ship. The verso of this states: "Coaling the steamer at Nagasaki: coal is passed up in baskets–people all standing
on those ladders you can see hauling it from one to another."

Other photos show the captain and crew of the ship (possibly of British registry) and passengers on board relaxing on deck.
What appears to be the ship's name, "Tokio," is visible on one of the lifeboats in the background. There are scenes of various
locales onshore in Japan including views of cherry blossoms, tourists being conveyed via rickshaw and various sites in Nagasaki
and Yokohama including a number of shrines, temples, and gardens.